G06F 9/441
Multiboot arrangements, i.e. selecting an operating system to be loaded
Official title: {Multiboot arrangements, i.e. selecting an operating system to be loaded}
G06F9/441 (Multiboot arrangements, i.e. selecting an operating system to be loaded) appears on 606 US grants and 709 published applications in this corpus.
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- Disk drive having a protected partition configured to load an operating system for performing a user-selected function177US 7,024,549 B1Western Digital Ventures, Inc. · 2006